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GOD 


REVELATION  BY  CHRISTIANITY 

AND 
ASTRONOMICAL  SCIENCE 


Copyright,  1922 

Frederick  Carroll  Brewster,  Jr. 

Real  Estate  Trust  Building 

Philadelphia,  Penna. 


PREFACE 

The  Rt.  Rev.  James  de  Wolf  Perry,  Jr., 
Bishop  of  Rhode  Island  once  preached, 
in  the  presence  of  the  author,  just  after 
his  ordination  as  a  priest,  a  sermon  in 
which  he  quoted  a  celebrated  French 
astronomer  as  saying,  "I  have  searched 
the  whole  universe  with  my  telescope, 
the  most  powerful  in  the  world,  and  I 
have  failed  to  find  God."  The  young 
minister  depicted  the  disappointment  of 
the  astronomer  with  great  scorn  and 
advised  every  member  of  his  audience 
that  without  any  telescope  they  could 
find  God  in  their  own  minds  by  careful 
thought  and  search.  From  that  time  on 
the  author  followed  this  advice  and  gave 
much  thought  and  study  to  this  ques- 
tion and  that  which  he  has  written 
herewith  is  the  result  of  many  years  of 
search  and  study  in  this  direction. 

FREDERICK  CARROLL  BREWSTER,  JR. 

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GOD    ;•;,;.;,;,,; 

Revelation  by  Christianity  and 
Astronomical  Science* 

A  French  writer  named  Bergsohn 
some  times  called  the  parlor  philosopher, 
once  endeavored  to  describe  and  locate 
God.  His  idea  of  the  Deity  was  that 
God  is  a  conscious  force  pervading  the 
whole  universe  and  all  life,  animal  and 
vegetable.  Further,  that  the  said  God 
was  perpetually  taking  shape  in  different 
forms  and  was  eternally  disappointed 
in  all  these  differently  selected  shapes. 
There  was  no  location  for  God  but  this 
mysterious  conscious  force  pervaded 
matter  in  all  its  shapes  and  was  suffer- 
ing disappointment  indefinitely.  How 
different  this  is  from  the  true  idea  given 
to  us  in  the  Christian  creed — one  God 
yet  three  persons— thus  constituting  that 
wonderful  Trinity,  God  the  Father,  God 


the  Sqri;an#Qod  the  Holy  Ghost.  Who 
and  what' is  "God  the  Father  ?  He  is  not 
merely;  £  conscious  force  pervading  the 
whole  umve'rs&'in  all  its  forms  of  life  and 
lifeless  matter.  He  on  the  contrary  is  a 
marvelous  Personage  with  a  wonderful 
and  indescribable  bodily  form.  Has  that 
wonderful  indescribable  God  with  this 
infinitely  astounding  form  any  location  in 
space?  The  answer  is  and  cannot  be  any- 
thing else  than—yes.  Astronomical  sci- 
ence shows  us  that  the  moon  revolves 
around  the  earth — that  the  earth  and  all 
its  companions  in  the  solar  system  revolve 
around  the  sun.  Further,  astronomy 
teaches  us  that  our  sun  with  all  these 
satalites  has  a  centre  around  which  it 
revolves  while  these  satalites  revolve 
around  it.  This  centre  around  which  our 
sun  together  with  other  suns  revolve 
also  revolves  around  its  centre  and  so  on 
these  revolutions  of  centres  and  satalites 
go  in  space  until  a  common  centre  of 
gravity  for  the  whole  universe  is  found. 
All  bodies  thus  revolving  in  space  are 


held  in  their  place  by  the  attraction  to- 
wards this  great  common  centre.  That 
great  common  center  is  stationary  and 
is  kept  in  position  and  equilibrium  by  all 
these  outlying  bodies  in  infinite  space. 
This  common  center  is  of  such  weight 
and  density  as  to  be  equal  in  weight  and 
density  to  all  these  outlying  bodies  in 
space.  Therefore  these  two  portions  of 
matter  in  space— the  center  one  and  the 
outlying  bodies  are  in  perfect  equilibrium, 
the  common  centre  of  all  these  being  sta- 
tionary and  yet  kept  in  place  by  the  vast 
numbers  of  outlying  bodies  whose  total 
weight  and  total  density  is  equal  to  the 
total  weight  and  total  density  of  the  com- 
mon centre.  Any  addition  in  matter  to 
these  two  portions  comes  in  equal  degree 
to  the  common  centre  and  the  outlying 
bodies  so  that  perfect  and  uniform 
equilibrium  is  eternally  preserved.  There 
in  and  upon  that  vast  and  infinitely 
dense  common  centre  rests  the  wonder- 
ful and  indescribable  physical  form  of 
God.  He  chooses  physically  not  to  move 


away  from  that  centre  for  His  presence 
is  part  and  parcel  of  this  wonderful  and 
infinite  equilibrium.  From  that  centre 
from  which  physically  God  moves  not 
His  spirit  moves  out  to  and  pervades 
that  infinite  outlying  space.  That  Holy 
Spirit  or  spiritual  force  of  the  physical 
God  causes  all  growth  or  addition  to 
matter  and  all  growth  and  increase  of 
form  of  the  animal  and  vegetable  life. 
That  portion  of  the  Trinity— the  con- 
scious spirit  of  the  stationary  physical 
God  enters  into  the  mental  or  self- 
conscious  status  of  all  animals  and  pur- 
posely in  an  infinitely  greater  degree 
into  the  mind  of  man  thus  making  him 
preeminently  a  conscious  instrument  for 
the  execution  of  the  will  of  the  physical 
God -God  the  Father.  Then  through 
all  this  there  grew  in  man  an  inade- 
quate consciousness  of  the  existence  of 
God  and  a  desire  throughout  all  ages 
for  some  manifestation  from  Him  of  His 
being.  This  was  the  cause  of  the  pre- 
sence through  countless  ages  of  what 


we  know  in  later  ages  as  idolatrous  and 
mythological  forms  of  worship.  Finally 
to  satisfy  this  longing  for  knowledge 
and  manifestation  of  God  physically  God 
the  Father  this  physical  God  stationed 
in  this  centre  of  equilibrium  willed  that 
this  longing  of  man  should  be  satisfied 
and  He  made  an  understandable  mani- 
festation of  Himself  in  human  shape. 
By  the  exercise  of  this  will  and  through 
the  work  and  direction  of  this  other 
member  of  the  Trinity  (the  Holy  Ghost) 
God  ordered  the  Being  called  Jesus 
Christ  to  be  begotten  of  the  Virgin 
Mary— begotten  from  the  same  germ  of 
life  as  all  other  human  beings  and  yet 
without  the  assistance  of  any  human 
Father  but  only  by  the  will  of  God  acting 
through  that  same  Holy  Spirit  by  which 
and  as  His  medium  God  has  caused  the 
growth  of  all  life  vegetable  and  animal. 
Yet  as  the  will  of  God  thus  acted  in 
this  solitary  and  personal  case  in  this 
manner  it  was  really  and  specifically 
the  Son  of  God  who  was  thus  begotten. 


Thus  Jesus  Christ  in  a  strict  and  specific 
sense  is  actually  Divine— an  emanation 
from  God  Himself.  God  thus  taking 
human  shape  in  Jesus  Christ  properly 
termed  God  the  Son  to  be  God  in  the  form 
and  shape  in  which  man  when  repentant 
and  believing  could  actually  see  God  and 
have  His  personal  and  physical  compan- 
ionship, which  save  in  a  spiritual  manner 
temporarily  ceased  with  the  crucifixion 
and  death  of  Christ  and  the  returning  of 
which  at  some  future  time  was  fore- 
shadowed and  promised  by  Him  at  the 
time  of  His  Resurrection  and  Ascension 
to  the  presence  of  His  Heavenly  Father. 
Thus  we  have  the  Trinity— God  the 
Father,  God  the  Son  and  God  the  Holy 
Ghost.  God  the  Father  being  an  indescri- 
bable wonderful  physical  form  residing 
on  the  centre  of  equilibrium  of  the  infinite 
universe  to  which  we  belong  and  Him- 
self being  the  centre  of  that  marvelous 
centre  of  equilibrium  which  itself  keeps 
and  by  which  the  whole  universe  is  kept 
in  place. 


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